Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio

Bev's suggestion that she keep the child and finish high school is thwarted by her stern father ( James Woods) and heartbroken mother ( Lorraine Bracco). In a 'nice' family in a place like Wallingford, unwed motherhood was definitely not embraced.

Now she faces the nightmare of telling her parents. Rejected by the boy she has a crush on, Bev turns to Ray, who is instantly taken with her, only to be stunned by an unintended and unexpected pregnancy months later. She meets Ray Hasek ( Steve Zahn), a tough, not-too-bright 18-year-old dropout, at a party. Her talent for writing has drawn praise from her teachers and helped fuel her ambition to go to college, but she is also a typical teen-sassy, funny, mercurial, rebellious boy-crazy. But as a teenager in working-class Wallingford, Connecticut, the daughter of a cop and a homemaker, reading Shakespeare and one too many romance novels is the closest it seems she'll get. It's 1965, and Bev (Barrymore) is a bright and gifted girl whose dream is to one day move to New York City and become a writer. Directed by Penny Marshall in her first collaboration with Academy Award®-winning director/producer Jim Brooks since the smash hit ' Big (1988),' the story spans over 20 years as it reveals this unlikely heroine's often humorous, occasionally irreverent, always unique personal journey to make something of herself. The comedy-drama RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS (2001) is the fresh, funny, touching and unbelievably true story of writer Beverly Donofrio (played by Drew Barrymore, who ages from 15 to 35 in the role), who comes of age in the late 1960s and has her entire life colored by an event that happens when she is 15 years old. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. 'One day can make your life one day can ruin your life.

Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly Donofrio